Legislation that would shift Oklahoma’s school board elections to better-known election dates that draw higher turnout has cleared two House committees and is now eligible to be heard by the entire membership of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
Senate Bill 6, by state Sen. Ally Seifried and state Rep. Chris Banning, would move school board elections to August for primaries or November for runoffs.
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With second place and hosting rights on the line for the upcoming playoffs, El Reno High School's girls soccer team allowed three goals in the first 10 minutes of its showdown with Carl Albert.
It was a start in which the Indians could not recover.
The Titans defeated El Reno 4-1 to secure second place in the District 5A-2 standings and will host Noble.
El Reno, now 7-6 overall, slipped to third with a 5-2 league mark and will travel to Duncan.
In a matter of seconds, El Reno High School’s boys soccer team went from looking at an overtime battle with Carl Albert to seeing its season end with a 1-0 loss to its archrival.
The Titans scored the game-winning goal with 7:49 left in the second half on a header off a corner kick.
It was the lone shot surrendered by El Reno goalie Aldo De La Torre, who faced 25 Carl Albert shots on the night.
The junior keeper made 12 saves including a leaping block earlier in the half and a tip over the crossbar in the first 40 minutes.
Stepping up a classification for just the second time this season, El Reno High School’s baseball team dropped a 10-2 road game last week to Class 6A’s Norman North.
The loss moves El Reno to 1-1 against the state’s largest classification and 14-9-2 on the season.
The Indians scored two runs in the first inning off a pair of base hits by Davin Shamblin (double) and Dawson Davidson. El Reno went 5-of-22 from the plate (.227) and left six runners stranded on base – four in scoring position.
Hernan Blanco went 2-for-3 to lead all El Reno batters.
The Burger Day Festival is a tribute to the fried onion hamburger, cooked daily in El Reno since the early 1900s. It’s the burger that has helped make the community a destination for food lovers and those trekking along historic Route 66.
It’s not uncommon to hear languages such as French or German being spoken in El Reno’s three main burger joints, Johnnie’s, Robert’s or Sid’s.
In “Hamburgers & Fries: An American Story,” author John T. Edge describes the history of El Reno’s fried onion hamburger.
